From owner-cvs-all Fri Jun 25 21:59:11 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from axl.noc.iafrica.com (axl.noc.iafrica.com [196.31.1.175]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DC711546F; Fri, 25 Jun 1999 21:59:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sheldonh@axl.noc.iafrica.com) Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.noc.iafrica.com) by axl.noc.iafrica.com with local-esmtp (Exim 3.02 #1) id 10xkXZ-000CfR-00; Sat, 26 Jun 1999 06:58:09 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn To: thyerm@camtech.net.au Cc: Martin Cracauer , Bruce Evans , hm@hcs.de, imp@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/i4b/isdnd main.c src/usr.sbin/i4b/isdndebug main.c src/usr.sbin/i4b/isdndecode main.c src/usr.s In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 26 Jun 1999 04:11:20 +0930." Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 06:58:09 +0200 Message-ID: <48696.930373089@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Sat, 26 Jun 1999 04:11:20 +0930, Matthew Thyer wrote: > A lot of people try -h or -? (with appropriate shell escaping) first > before going for the manual page. Another thing I've seen is people > trying garbage to get a usage string (e.g. date -gfdsa) in the hope > that one of the characters is an invalid option! This is the only thing I like about Solaris -- it teaches you to read manpages on an unfamiliar system before "playing around" with commands (killall, for example). Cioa, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message